I’ve been getting progressively more worked up each day the last few weeks and it finally spilled over into this letter I just wrote to my congresswoman and senators.
On consideration, I think the analogies here (trite as they seem) are worth sharing precisely because they are so very obvious and applicable.
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Not silly stuff this week. But engaging and worthwhile.
Also: Watch this one on Facebook videos.
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Dear editors,
Most Americans understand now that health care reform is necessary. Most of us, eighty percent according to some polls, support a public option. The economic analysis and historical precedents have been examined; nobody proposes we go where angels fear to tread.
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Dear Senator Durbin,
I am a Michigan transplant who has been living and voting in Chicago for the better part of the last ten years.
I am writing you today about an issue that will supersede in importance the life of the auto industry; this is a bold statement for me to make as many of my family and many friends are or were employed by GM.
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It is also the feast of the three Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael.
You can read more about it here.
One of the wonderful ambiguities of religious tradition is the way that what may seem from the outside to be a simple “symbolic” allegory is, in fact, multivalent and complementary.
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My renewal of support.
Dear Ms. Schakowsky,
In the last election I voted against you because I didn’t think you had taken as strenuous a stand against funding the war in Iraq as I thought was possible, given the level of support (and strong, progressive support) you’ve enjoyed here in Chicago.
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New York Times: Health Plan Opponents Make Voices Heard.
This is one thing that the new (meaning post-1994) generation of conservatives have excelled at; compensating for numbers with virulence. I’m nont saying that progressives should strive for such shrillness, but we should at least be emphatic.
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I’m really annoyed at myself for not having covered this more in the past several weeks.
Here’s an astute argument from Uwe Reinhardt:
A ‘Common Sense’ American Health Reform Plan.
And here’s an unabashedly emotional appeal from Jeff Danziger:
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Proposed Legislative Amendment:
A proposal to amend the State Constitution to address human embryo and human embryonic stem cell research in Michigan. (Proposal provided under an initiative petition filed with the Secretary of State on July 7, 2008.)
The proposal would add a new Section 27 to Article 1 of the State Constitution to read as follows:
… Read the restTo ensure that Michigan citizens have access to stem cell therapies and cures, and to ensure that physicians and researchers can conduct the most promising forms of medical research in this state, and that all such research is conducted safely and ethically, any research permitted under federal law on human embryos may be conducted in Michigan, subject to the requirements of federal law and only the following additional limitations and requirements:
(a) No stem cells may be taken from a human embryo more than fourteen days after cell division begins; provided, however, that time during which an embryo is frozen does not count against this fourteen day limit.
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Proposed Legislative Amendment:
… Read the restA legislative initiative to permit the use and cultivation of marijuana for specified medical conditions. (Proposal provided under a legislative initiative petition filed with the Secretary of State on November 20, 2007.)
The following is the language of the legislative amendment as it appeared on the legislative initiative petition.
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